The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday slammed the punitive security measures implemented by Israel following the Tel Aviv shooting, while at the same time stating its condemnation for the shooting itself. He said that Israel was imposing a collective punishment against Palestinians.

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said in a statement released by the United Nations, “We are also deeply concerned at the response of the Israeli authorities, which includes measures that may amount to collective punishment,” adding that it, “will only increase the sense of injustice and frustration felt by Palestinians in this very tense time”.

Al-Hussein said that while “Israel has a human rights obligation to bring those responsible to account for their crimes the measures taken against the broader population punish not the perpetrators of the crime, but tens — maybe hundreds — of thousands of innocent Palestinians.”

The alleged attackers’ hometown of Yatta in the West Bank has been sealed by Israeli forces, with Palestinians forbidden to leave except for humanitarian or medical cases. Overnight raids have heightened tremendously.

Yisrael Katz, Israeli Intelligence and Atomic Energy Minister, said Yatta must undergo “a preventative ‘root canal’ treatment that will go down in history,” adding that the town must be cordoned off for “a long time”. This while members of the Israeli leadership threatened a harsh response for the act of “terror.”

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